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October 1: Ex-Atari Employees Start Activision
1979- Activision was founded by four ex-Atari, Inc. game designers: David Crane, Larry Kaplan, Alan Miller and Bob Whitehead. They teamed up with Jim Levy to produce game cartridges for the Atari 2600 game system. This, in fact, was the first company that developed game cartridges only. The company started with an investment of $700,000.
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September 30: IBM incorporated as Bundy Manufacturing
1889 - The Bundy Manufacturing Co., a maker of time recording equipment, is incorporated. It is the first company that was formed, then eventually acquired by the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company, Inc. (C-T-R). Ultimately, that would become International Business Machines (IBM).
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- Commodore announces the CBM8032
- IE 4.0 is released
- MPAA asks for an injunction of RealDVD
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September 29: Mac OS X 10.1 “Puma” Released
Apple
2001- With one version of the Apple OS X under it’s belt, “Puma” – or OS X 10.1 is released to the public. Updates would include extended DVD support and the ability to burn DVD – RW. There were still a lot of people against this new version of software. A lot of Mac users still liked OS 9 and thought OS X is a “superfluous” upgrade.
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- CERN is formed
- Lenovo recalls 526,000 batteries
- Zimbra Password exposure.
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September 28: Next James Bond on Facebook? Day in Tech History
2008 – British Secret Service admitted they have been looking for the next agents. They mention that they have been looking far and wide for spies. That is why they went to Facebook. MI6 placed 3 ads on Facebook to look for people seeking career change.. ability to shake a good martini is preferred.
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- eDonkey shuts down
- IE overtakes Netscape as the #1 browser
- Bill Gates, Paul Allen, and Kay Nishi accept new IBM contract
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September 27: Kevin Mitnick is indicted
Kevin Mitnick
1996- Famous hacker Kevin Mitnick is indicted on 25 charges for a 2 and a half year hacking spree. Police believed Mitnick had stolen Millions of dollars in software from different corporations. Mitnick faced up to 200 years in prison if found guilty. He was first arrested on February 15th, 1995. He was sentenced to 46 months and an additional 22 months for violating the terms of his 1989 supervised release. He was released to supervised release on January 21, 2000 and finally released on January 21, 2003.
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- Disney nixes Disney Mobile
- iTunes 7.0 is released
- Atari dumps inventory – Litterally – into a landfill
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September 26: FTC is established
FTC
1914 - The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is formed to regulate business in the US. President Wilson issued this to “Trust bust”. The FTC is controlled by a 5 member panel that serve in 7 year terms. They govern all fair trade practices.
Companies like Microsoft and IBM have been under the microscope with the FTC and the FCC.
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- 414′s testimony
- Kentucky shuts down 141 gambling domains
- Iomega Zip across america
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September 25: iWoz (From Computer Geek to Cult Icon) – Day in Tech History
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2006 - The book iWoz: from Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-founded Apple and had Fun Doing it. (**WHEW!**) came out. It was a book that was written to dispel some of the rumors and misconceptions on many different items.
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- Red Hat Linux 7.0 Released
- Ultima Online, the first MMORPG
- OS/2 Warp 4
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September 24: eBay files IPO
ebay
1998- In 3 years since it’s inception, eBay grew to be a powerful auction site. Therefore, eBay decided to go public. They offered 9 million shares on NASDAQ starting at $18 a share. When all is said and done, they closed the day at $47.375.
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Other Historical Events in Technology
- 30 years of Compuserve Services
- USS Enterprise launched
- Qualcom infringed on Broadcom patents
- Myst released
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September 23: Firefox (Phoenix 0.9) Released
Pheonix
2002 - Mozilla releases Phoenix 0.1, the first release of what will become Firefox. The browser will change names because of trademark issues with Phoenix technologies. The initial first release of Firefox, though will be released on Nov. 9, 2004
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- Yahoo Instant Messanger 9.0
- Morse Code alphabet is invented
- Nintendo Koppai is founded (later renamed to Nintendo)
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September 22 – the $10 Million Marijuana eBay auction
ebay
1999 - an ebay user (litterally) puts 500 pounds of Marijuana on the auction block. The auction itself hits up to 10 million dollars. eBay finds out and pulls down the auction, but it does say something for the power of illegal drugs over the internet.
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Other Historical Events in Technology
- Intel launches several Celeron D chips
- Microsoft opens the San Antonio center
- Compaq Deskpro 4000N debuts
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